Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Honoka‘a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Honoka‘a in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -1.0499999523163 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: hv74588762. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74588762. Exact location of event, longitude -155.46282958984 West, latitude 20.148666381836 North, depth = -1.0499999523163 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/25 / 2025-01-10 19:31:42 / January 10, 2025 @ 7:31 pm. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:42 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kalaoa, Hilo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km N of Honoka‘a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.46282958984° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.148666381836° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.0499999523163 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km N of Honoka‘a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-10 19:31:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-10 19:35:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	132	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	hv	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.319999993 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	211	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv74588762	Id of event.
Event Code	74588762	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74588762,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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